A dark hour makes Jesus bright.
It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God. " he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you. " When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.