Quotes About Spirituality

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

Look at the eyes now -- the eyes of an Old Believer. Part of his mind was away somewhere, dancing with itself.

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning -- we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.

The Thou encounters me by grace -- it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.

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.

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

That you need God more than anything, you know at all times in your heart. But don't you know also that God needs you—in the fullness of his eternity, you? 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 which is the meaning of your life.

For Judaism, God is not a Kantian idea but an elementally present spiritual reality—neither something conceived by pure reason nor something postulated by practical reason, but emanating from the immediacy of existence as such, which religious man steadfastly confronts and nonreligious man evades.

The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud but reveals itself, it lacks but creates language. We hear no You and yet addressed; we answer - creating, thinking, acting: with our being we speak the basic word, unable to say You with our mouth. Bt how can we incorporate into the world of the basic word that lies outside language?

There is a light over every person, and when two souls meet, their lights come together, and a single light emerges from them to feel the universal generation as a sea, and oneself as a wave in it.

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

Of Enoch, who walked with Elohim, it is told that he had become one of the angels who was all eyes and wings. Thus is the poet. Everything in him perceives the things, and everything in him flies past the things. He is wholly in the one thing that he experiences, and yet is already and still in all the others at the same time.

True unity cannot be found, it can only be created. He who creates it realizes the unity of the world in the unity of his soul. Thus beforehand he must live through the tension of the world in his soul as his own soul's tension.

The world is not divine sport; it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world; of man, of human persons, of you and of me.

I contemplate a tree. I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of the blue silver ground. I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the suckling of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air - and the growing itself in its darkness.

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