The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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