“Faith is the highest passion in a man.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.”

“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”

“The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.”

“By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity.”

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

“If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?”