When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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