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Him Quotes by Martin Buber
- The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
- From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has…
- 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…
- I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something…
- Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator,…
- Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
- God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
- But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there…
- A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell…
- 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…
- Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully…
- This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment…
- To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world…
- There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
- God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden