Temptation

"He too had become weary in this house with the decrepit daily servile admonitions: Eat!v Work! Get Married! Eat! Work! Get married!"

"And the petty workday cares which devour the soul; had longed to shake Man from his feet like so much dust and to flee and take refuge in the desert."

"The world of stones, grass and flesh thinned out, became transparent, and the next world appeared behind it, composed of flames and angels."

"Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss."

"The two voices joined in the young man's heart, and suddenly he felt that all the struggle of mankind was a mockery."

"This world that unfolded before him was God's fairy tale, full of princesses and ogres."

"When the heart takes the uphill road it forgets, and has no mercy."

"You don't fear death, and that's why you speak with such freedom!"

"If I were fire, I would burn. If I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love."

"The people listened to him, and the clay within them turned to wings."

"God always works in this way. Deep in the foundations of wrong he buries the small despised cry of justice."

"Refresh him, Lord, that I may be refreshed. Deliver him, Lord, that I may be delivered. Otherwise I too shall begin to feel the flames."

"And you pious milktoast: you don't murder, steal, or commit adultery - because you are afraid. All your virtues are daughters of fear."

"No, hell with its devils was not in the great pit below the earth; it was in the breasts of men, in the breast of the most virtuous, most just."

"The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels. 'Angel' is the name we give to repentant devils."

"She had already left shame far behind her, as well as fear of God, love of her father and care about the opinions of men. Scandal had it that her heart was possessed with seven devils, but her heart did not contain seven devils; it contained seven knives."

"Shame is also a temptation."

"Silence is good. It says everything. Silence does not satisfy a woman. Women, poor creatures, need a kind word."

"If God listened to the prayers of mothers we would all rot away in a bog of security and easy living..."

"Stay vigilant, fight, keep the torch of your soul burning day and night. Strike, forge the wings!"

"Courage! Haven't you heard that Paradise is at the heart of the inferno?"

"God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary."

"From the moment that man is born, God shows him the earth, and upon the earth, a city, village, mountain, sea, or desert, and says to him, 'Here you shall wage war!'"

If God is the one who's pushing me to find my murderer, then let me go quickly, and be killed."

"Why are you afraid of death? He is the most merciful of God's arc angels, the one who loves man the most."
"The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent, and identical, both green, both beautiful!"

"God... or was it the devil? Who can tell them apart? They exchange faces, God sometimes becomes all darkness, the devil all light, and the mind of man is left in a muddle."

"God replies every time we question him, but our flesh is bemired and almost deaf: we do not hear."

"He knew that Judas's heart was hard, and that for it to soften, time was needed - time and skill and much love."

"Savage, full of blood, and at the height of despair - - it is where hope begins!"