To study the meaning of man and of life - I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with trut…

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.