You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard...

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,...

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But...

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. - Alfred Lord Tennyson In the middle of this week’s Torah portion we’re...

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. -R. Turnbull The Torah...

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it...

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson The main architect, the main builder of the...

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. -John Bunyan For the...

Opening Letter Dear Reader, The document in your hands is much more than a party platform. It is a Jewish vision and a message of...

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker At the beginning of this week’s...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. -W. H. Auden In describing the construction plans...

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. -Empedocles After the Revelation at Mount Sinai, the instruction...

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Sir Winston Churchill The people of Israel had been freed...

Joys divided are increased. - Josiah Gilbert Holland The Egyptian Empire has been pummeled by the devastating ten plagues. In a panic,...

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom,...

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit...

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi It is probably one of the more...

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything...

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. -Frances Moore Lappe...

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods As a young lad, Joseph...