The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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