The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

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.

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.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

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