Occupation: Rabbi Birth: January 11, 1907 Death: December 23, 1972
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings..
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you..
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism..
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..
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought..
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions..
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….
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence i….
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, mercifu….
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance..
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. ….
A soul can create only when alone..
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction whi….
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment ….
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not conv….
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..
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.….
All action is vicarious faith..
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in ….