Thought for the Week: The hallowed and the holy

G Gordon Steel reflects on some moving words

by G Gordon Steel 10th May 2013

Recently, a Friend quoted in Meeting words by the Austrian-born Israeli-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, writing as God:  You think I am far away from you; but in your love for your neighbour you will find me; not in his love for you but in yours for him.  Everything is waiting to be hallowed by you.  The greatest thing any man can do for another is to confirm the deepest thing in him…