Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.