The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To 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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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