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Quotes from For The Sake of Heaven — Martin Buber

1878–1965 Austria

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In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

It is the highest service to submit the evil impulse to God through the power of love.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

When we desire to lead men to God, we must not simply overthrow their idols. In each of these images we must seek to discover what divine quality he who carved it sought.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

God ... demands everything, in order to give everything anew to him who loves Him, after that loving has truly given up all.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

Avoid melancholy with all your might. It hurts the service of God more than sin. Satan takes less pleasure in sin than in a man's melancholy over having sinned again and so feeling that he is a slave to sin. Thus the Evil One has caught the poor soul in the net of despair.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

God ... desires His creature to be able to oppose Him. He has given that creature freedom. ... When man turns away from evil with that whole measure of power with which he is able to rebel against God, then he has truly turned to God.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Buber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.