To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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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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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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Every little deed counts.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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