Martin Buber

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

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

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?