When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

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

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

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

In the beginning was the relationship.