To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

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.

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.