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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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