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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Human Being Involve Living Responsible Role Understanding World
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking

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