Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

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

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.