Play is the exultation of the possible.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

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.

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

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

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.