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

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

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.

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

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.