The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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