Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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