There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
Interpretation
Humility is essential for a genuine connection with God.
This quote by Martin Buber emphasizes the importance of humility in a person's spiritual journey. It suggests that when someone is consumed by their own ego and self-importance, they leave no space for a relationship with the divine, as true spirituality requires an openness and surrender to something greater than oneself.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a religious sermon focused on the importance of humility in spiritual life.
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
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.
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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