Occupation: Rabbi Birth: 1935
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather tha….
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it..
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less..
Why bad things happen to good people.
Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the m….
There is no right way to do a wrong thing..
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see m….
The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him..
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us..
If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with ….
Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in….
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them..
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick..
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this,….
. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation..
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess..
No good deed ever goes wasted..
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and th….
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win..
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different..
We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade Go….