What Tarquinius Superbus said in the garden by means of the poppies, the son understood but the messenger did not
An old proverb fetched from the outward and visible world says: "Only the man that works gets the bread." Strangely enough this proverb does not aptly apply in that world to which it expressly belongs. For the outward world is subjected to the law of imperfection, and again and again the experience is repeated that he too who does not work gets the bread, and that he who sleeps gets it more abundantly than the man who works
For when faith is eliminated by becoming null or nothing, then there only remains the crude fact that Abraham wanted to murder Isaac - which is easy enough for anyone to imitate who has not faith, the faith, that is to say, which makes it hard for him.
For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.
i like the abraham stuff
Abraham I cannot understand, in a certain sense there is nothing I can learn from him but astonishment.
I cannot make the movement of faith, I cannot shut my eyes and plunge confidently into the absurd.... Be it a duty or whatever, I cannot make the final movement, the paradoxical movement of faith, although there is nothing I wish more.