Sin is worse than suffering. Human beings are egotists and must experience despair. God is beyond reason and humanity. Christianity is in opposition to this world, and time and to human reason. Honest human reflection ultimately manifests itself in paradox.
Christian ethics are realizable only in eternity.
K. also had a great deal of antipathy for the church. I have, though I myself may not be aware of it, one hearer in addition to those that are visible to me, namely, God in heaven, whom I cannot see, it is true, but who verily can see me. God has heard it. Men's thoughts are thin and flimsy like lace, they are themselves pitiable like the lace-makers. The thoughts of their hearts are too paltry to be sinful.