"God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?"
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"When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world."
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"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."
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"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."
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"The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion."
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"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
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"I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found."
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"Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred."
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"Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else."
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"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"
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"Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing"
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"Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself."
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"We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say."
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"Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved."
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"If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light."
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"What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You."
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"To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin."
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"In the beginning was the relationship."
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"Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. 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 being looking at me."
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"What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things."
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