You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

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.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.