By the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBut the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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