We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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