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.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

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).

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.