SaturdayDec 21, 2024
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How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you for that is the meaning of your life.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
The ones who count are those persons who though they may be of little renown respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
God is the 'mysterium tremendum,' that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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.
Without distance there is no dialogue between the two.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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