One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

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

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

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

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.