Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.