Quote #12
Next to being the children of God our greatest privilege is being the brothers of each other.
More from Martin Buber
- Through the Thou a person becomes I.
- A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
- Whoever abhors the name and fancies that he is godless- when he addresses with his whole devoted being the Thou of his life that cannot be …
- All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
- Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human word…
- 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
- All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
- 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.