The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.

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

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.