Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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