“To be is to stand for.”

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Self-respect is the root of discipline

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

It’s nice to finally be my own person.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.

Speech happens to not be his language.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don’t be cool.