"“A person needs only a little in order to live and needs that little only a little while”-this is a high minded prove…"

"To be contented with the grace of God! The grace of God is indeed the most glorious of all. We certainly shall not di…"

"We do not deny that wanting in all earnestness to understand what a person does not yet understand earnestly enough-i…"

"To external observation, many may well be the most glorious creation, but all his glory is still only in the external…"

"But if he nevertheless is unwilling to be an instrument of war in the service of inexplicable drives, indeed, in the …"

"Did not Moses go as the Lord’s envoy to the wicked people in order to free them from themselves, from their servile m…"

"If this view, that to need God is man’s highest perfection, makes life more difficult, it does this only because it w…"

"The more profound self-knowledge begins with what someone who is unwilling to understand it might call a shocking del…"

"When a person turns and faces himself in order to understand himself, he steps, as it were, in the way of that first …"

"this little book […] seeks that single individual whom I with joy and gratitude call my reader, in order to pay him a…"