The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling – the equality of all lovers...
When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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.