Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand . . . I am more than ever certain that a great place belongs to him in Israel's history of faith and that this place cannot be described by any of the usual categories.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

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.

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.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.