At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Faith 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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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The 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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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