Knowledge-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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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