To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions..

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living..

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself..

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. ….

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence i….

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 i….

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge..

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers..

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible..

Self-respect is the root of discipline.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline..

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference..

To be is to stand for..

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness..

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people..

There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cheris….

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human..

New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment ….

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelm….

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words..