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

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

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.

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.

Self-respect is the root of discipline

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.