We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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