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

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

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

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.