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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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