You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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