Provocations

All the same he said, “a corrective made into the norm is by that very fact confusing.”

And the reason for this is “because doctrine is the indolence of aping and mimicking for the learner, and doctrine is the way to power for the teacher, and doctrine collects people.”

But he who walks the narrow path of faith no one can advise, no one can understand. Faith is a miracle, and yet no human being is excluded from it.

We ought, before God, to make up our own minds about our convictions, and then live them out regardless of the others.

Wanting to hide in the crowd, to be a little fraction of the group instead of being an individual, is the most corrupt of all escapes.

What faith it takes to believe that one’s life is noticed by God and that this is enough!

The deep fault of the human race is that there are no individuals any more.

Are you willing to be sacrificed, instead of belonging to the crowd

In the physical world water puts out fire. So too in the spiritual world. The “many”, the mass of people, put out the inner fire – beware of men!

The majority of people are not only afraid of holding a wrong opinion, they are afraid of holding an opinion alone.