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If You Want To Raise A Man From Mud And Filth, Do Not Think It Is Enough To Stay On Top And Reach A Helping Hand Down To Him. You Must Go All The Way Down Yourself, Down Into Mud And Filth. Then Take Hold Of Him With Strong Hands And Pull Him And Yourself Out Into The Light.

Real Faith Means Holding Ourselves Open To The Unconditional Mystery Which We Encounter In Every Sphere Of Our Life And Which Cannot Be Comprised In Any Formula. Real Faith Means The Ability To Endure Life In The Face Of This Mystery.

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 Always Appeared To Me A Fact Of The Highest Importance Which, For His Sake And My Own, I Must Endeavor To Understand . . . I Am More Than Ever Certain That A Great Place Belongs To Him In Israel's History Of Faith And That This Place Cannot Be Described By Any Of The Usual Categories.

There Are Three Principles In A Man's Being And Life, The Principle Of Thought, The Principle Of Speech, And The Principle Of Action. The Origin Of All Conflict Between Me And My Fellow-men Is That I Do Not Say What I Mean And I Don't Do What I Say.

To Love God Truly, One Must First Love Man. And If Anyone Tells You That He Loves God And Does Not Love His Fellow-man, You Will Know That He Is Lying.