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By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.
I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.
I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate.
This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.
People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.
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
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.