I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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