Franz Kafka Quotes on Faith
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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.
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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.
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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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'It cannot be said that we are lacking in faith. Even the simple fact of our life is of a faith-value that can never be exhausted.' 'You suggest there is some faith-value in this? One cannot not-live, after all.' 'It is precisely in this 'Cannot, after all' that the mad strength of faith lies; it is in this negation that it takes on form.' There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.
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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.
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(21 November 1917) Variant translation: Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.
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Writing is a form of prayer.