Occupation: Rabbi Birth: 1935
I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough.
When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find ….
It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So….
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind..
The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. S….
We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your ….
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfe….
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striv….
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and ….
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are..
I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave..
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afrai….
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wh….
The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything….
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough..
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again..
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something..
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office.
There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer..
When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask….
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human..