Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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