No one is any longer carried away by the desire for the good to perform great things, no one is precipitated by evil into atrocious sins, and so ther… - Søren Kierkegaard

Socrates did not stop with a philosophical consideration of mankind; he addressed himself to each one individually, wrested everything from him, and sent him away empty-handed.

When God chooses to let himself be born in lowliness, when he who holds all possibilities in his hand takes upon himself the form of a lowly servant, when he goes about defenseless and lets people do with him what they will, he surely must know well enough what he is doing and why he wills it; but for all that it is he who has people in his power and not they who have power over him-so history ought not play Mr. Malapert by this wanting to make manifest who he was.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.