When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.