Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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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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