What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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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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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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We worship God through our questions.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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