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.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

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

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.