Quotes from David Wolpe

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

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.

May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

God's greatest gift is to endow human beings with the capacity to perceive - and the create - holiness.

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

Insisting to people that one would rule in their favor is, of course, the tactic of the demagogue; no one can know without hearing a suit what the result should be.

David has won everything he coveted and lost everything he cared for. This snapshot of agony sums up for generations the price of power, the intersection of family and public life, the way in which we injure ourselves and are then staggered by the pain.

Political loyalties can die hard, and there were probably those who pined after Absalom and told their children stories of the greatness that briefly existed, in the manner of old communists saddened by the demise of the world in which they were young.

will sing of the Lord's steadfast and eternal love/to all the generations my lips will declare your faithfulness. I declare, 'Your enduring love is established forever'" (Ps. 90:2–3).