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“Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.”

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Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

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None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love…

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We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

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God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

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There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

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The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

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