When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople 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 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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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