I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

All real living is meeting.

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

In the beginning was the relationship.