People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

The awe of God is wisdom.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.