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

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

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

All actual life is encounter.

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.