Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you w…

That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such - be it so; but I love, and …