"You are not an object for men like this, not a thing to be used or experienced, not an object of interest or fascination. The point is not at all that you are found interesting or fascinating instead of being seen as a fellow I." (Martin Buber, I AND THOU 1970 p.g 11) A quote that stuck out to me, I haven't gotten to read the full book on Martin Buber, but a interesting person. He provided a literal perspective on direct relationships with God. Now we can say that God carries his absoluteness into his relationship with man kind.  Many believers altogether have a understanding that the conversation with God should flow as any with a friend. Buber "God address to man the events in all our lives and all the events in th world arond us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction,* into demands for you and me." (Martin Buber)