Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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