Quotes about Sacred

Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.

Faith is vision, sensitivity and attachment to God; piety is an attempt to attain such sensitivity and attachment. The gates of faith are not ajar, but the mitsvah is a key. By living as Jews we may attain our faith as Jews. We do not have faith because of deeds; we may attain faith through sacred deeds. A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought.

There are three starting points of contemplation about God; three trails that lead to Him. The first is the way of sensing the presence of God in the world, in things; the second is the way of sensing His presence in the Bible; the third is the way of sensing His presence in sacred deeds.

This is the secret of the spirit, not disclosed to reason: the adaptation of the mind to what is sacred, intellectual humility in the presence of the supreme. The mind surrenders to the mystery of spirit, not in resignation but in love.

To the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God's action in the sacred story, the history of the Christ on earth.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

I call writing a sacred profession because I believe God chose the written word to communicate with man.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Remember the woods were God's first temples.