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. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? 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 real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
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All actual life is encounter.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
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God can be addressed, but not expressed.
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The ones who count are those persons who
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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 attained—in succes...
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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
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Play is the exultation of the possible.
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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
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