Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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Judaism 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 cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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We worship God through our questions.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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