Quotes about Man

The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man." God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

Judaism is God's quest for man.

The laws of the Torah ask of each generation to fulfill what is within its power to fulfill. Some of its laws (for example Exodus 21:2 ff),14 do not represent ideals but compromises, realistic attempts to refine the moral condition of ancient man.

The mystic experience is man's turning toward God; the prophetic act is God's turning toward man. The former is first of all an event in the life of man, contingent on the aspiration and initiative of man; the latter is first of all an event in the life of God, contingent on the pathos and initiative of God. From the mystic experience we may gain an insight of man into the life of God; from the prophetic act we learn of an insight of God into the life of man.

Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.

A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.

The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.