The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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.
We worship God through our questions.
A soul can create only when alone...
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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.
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
Life without commitment is not worth living.