In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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