New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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