The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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