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.

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

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.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

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.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

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.