Nothing Can Doom Man But The Belief

The Biblical Passage Which Says Of Abraham And The Three Visiting Angels: "and He Stood Over Them Under The Tree And They Did Eat" Is Interpreted By Rabbi Zusya To The Effect That Man Stands Above The Angels, Because He Knows Something Unknown To Them, Namely, That Eating May Be Hallowed By The Eater's Intention.... Any Natural Act, If Hallowed, Leads To God, And Nature Needs Man For What No Angel Can Perform On It, Namely, Its Hallowing.

Since The Primary Motive Of The Evil Is Disguise, One Of The Places Evil People Are Most Likely To Be Found Is Within The Church. What Better Way To Conceal One's Evil From Oneself, As Well As From Others, Than To Be A Deacon Or Some Other Highly Visible Form Of Christian Within Our Culture? ... I Do Not Mean To Imply That The Evil Are Anything Other Than A Small Minority Among The Religious Or That The Religious Motives Of Most People Are In Any Way Spurious. I Mean Only That Evil People Tend To Gravitate Toward Piety For The Disguise And Concealment It Can Offer Them.

What Is It That Is Eternal: The Primal Phenomenon, Present In The Here And Now, Of What We Call Revelation? It Is Man's Emerging From The Moment Of The Supreme Encounter, Being No Longer The Same As He Was When Entering Into It.

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.

Play Is The Exultation Of The Possible.