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When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.
And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
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.
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 risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
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
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.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.
The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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.
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.
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.
If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.
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.
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
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.
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.
Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.