One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

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

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78