Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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 b...
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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 d...
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurab...
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consec...
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but...
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.