A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Through the Thou a person becomes I

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.