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A 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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Argument Atheist Attained Debate God Order Reality Session Understanding
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
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
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
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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Inscrutable Music Ornament Perceive Science Thing World
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
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Called Creation Day Eternal Mystery Result Shared Time
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Live Must Often People Philosophy Relevant Wisdom World
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
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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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
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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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test

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