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

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

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

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

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.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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.