It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

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

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.