I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

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.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

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.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Solitude is the place of purification.