Martin Buber quotes - page 4

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known). (Martin Buber)
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too. View quote
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It pains me to speak of God in the third person. View quote
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Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning. View quote
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Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power. View quote
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle. View quote
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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. View quote
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To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover. View quote
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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. View quote
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Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself. View quote
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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form. (Martin Buber)
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. 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. View quote
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Avoid melancholy with all your might. It hurts the service of God more than sin. Satan takes less pleasure in sin than in a man's melancholy over having sinned again and so feeling that he is a slave to sin. Thus the Evil One has caught the poor soul in the net of despair. View quote
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