Quotes from Milton Steinberg

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.

Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.

Stop, she shrieked, stop trying to make it easier. But we do not love each other. We never have... You mean, she screamed, you have never loved me.

That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest my days with dignity and meaning, a pattern of behavior through which man might most articulately express his devotion to his fellows.

Judaism regards evil as a contingent to a prior and more basic good