The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

One person of integrity can make a difference.