The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man’s emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
I’m not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
Through the Thou a person becomes I.
In the beginning was the relationship.
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.
Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God – such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.