To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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

Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

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