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

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.