(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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