Martin Buber quotes - page 3

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 face looking at me. (Martin Buber)
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.
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Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
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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 words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable.
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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.
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Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way.
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For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others.
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The Thou encounters me by grace - it cannot be found by seeking. (Martin Buber)
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.
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A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
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For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
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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.
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Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
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He who loves brings God and the World together.
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In the beginning was the relationship.
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God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
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To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying. (Martin Buber)
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.
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We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
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Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
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