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

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

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.

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.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.