Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
…morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted…Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.