It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs

Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.