Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, t…

- Robert Gordis

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

- Robert Gordis

Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means t…

- Robert Gordis

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

- Robert Gordis

Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in …

- Robert Gordis