No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand . . . I am more than ever certain that a great place belongs to him in Israel's history of faith and that this place cannot be described by any of the usual categories.