You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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To be is to stand for.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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