When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.

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

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

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

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.