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

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.