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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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