A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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