For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.

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

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.