Religion Quotes by Martin Buber

9 Religion quotes by Martin Buber

Martin Buber’s short reflections on faith focus on dialogue and relationship, each line a thoughtful pause. These nine quotes provide a concise entry into his philosophical stance.

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I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

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Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the…

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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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God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

Martin Buber

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Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

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The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and,…

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There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the…

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Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot…

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Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be…

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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

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Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

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You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

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All actual life is encounter.

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God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

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What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,…

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In the beginning was the relationship.

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To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

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The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who…

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This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a…

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God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

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No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal…

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But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then…

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