A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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