We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

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

Life without commitment is not worth living.

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.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.