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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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We worship God through our questions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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