The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Seth: They should be suckin' on my ball sack.
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
We should have a banquet on the day haters die.
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.
God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback.
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.
