The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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