You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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