We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

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.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.