The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn 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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To be is to stand for.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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