“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.”

I am commanded therefore I am.

Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.