Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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