Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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