Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in com…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which i…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs t…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will a…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, f…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

No God without a world, and no world without God.

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an in…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the hear…

- Friedrich Schleiermacher