“People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.”

“It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.”

“That life is thus created through the cult means salvation from that distress and destruction which would befall, if life were not renewed. For existence is an everlasting war between the forces of life and death, of blessing and curse. 'The world' is worn out if it is not regularly renewed, as anyone can see by the annual course of life and nature. Thus it is the 'fact of salvation' which is actualized in the cult.”

“Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.”

“I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?”

“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”