But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

In the beginning was the relationship.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

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.

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