Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

"Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion."

"For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God."

"For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God."

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"