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

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

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

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

Solitude is the place of purification.

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.

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