We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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