The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
God is the “mysterium tremendum,” that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being...
There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands.
How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you – for that is the meaning of your life.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
Feeling one “has”; love occurs.
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
Every man’s foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
All real living is meeting.
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.