Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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