Shalom Freedman

What is important at the moment is not that the Stars are moving away from us, but that we are destroying the Earth.

Loving Truth means learning to live with Disappointment.

The great mass of cultural creators live lives of quiet mediocrity.

The first question about the future of Humanity is whether or not there will be one.

It seems that we have no real knowledge of our own distant future except suspicious speculations.

A personal God is the only One it makes sense to pray for help from.

Praying for one's own personal needs is one major way humans show belief in a personal God.

The hope of an after-life for those we love would seem to depend upon the reality of a personal God.

It is remarkable how concerned we are with creating immortal works when we know we will not be witness of their enduring even one generation after us.

The Universe is by and large too violent and dark to really be very much loved.

The world-to-come cannot provide full and complete compensation to those who have suffered unjustly in this one.

It is impossible to really understand how life could be meaningful if it were to last forever.

The glory jest and riddle of the world apparently has no other intelligent species in the Universe it can talk to.

The human story does not begin with humanity and apparently will not end with it.

We live for and because of those we love.

The day will come when the day will not come.

To walk in the way of God is to live in kindness.

Helping others gives meaning to life.

The more we know, the more we know how much more we will never know.

The more we have learned about the Cosmos the more we have learned how fragile and uncertain our own place in it is.

We may never know if there are other Universes beside our own.

In order to be somewhere else in the Universe, we will most likely have to become something else, other than what we are now.

The best we can do is too often, not good enough.

Music we love teaches us feelings we did not know we had.

There is a pleasure in creating that often leads us to still seek it when our power for creating is lost.

A human being is more than just a mind or a soul.

Our equations for revealing the physical structure of the Universe might not need God, but our needs as loving and caring human beings do

Greatness too is mortal.

Humanity has in a relatively brief time understood more about the universe than all other species taken together, including those who have lived billions of years more than us.

The old are most often too tired and weak to be adventurous, even in thought.

Cruelty is the greatest sin.

We see from the stars far away, the light of yesterday.

It is not only that there is much we do not know, and not even that there is much we will never know, but that there is so much it is impossible to ever know

It is remarkable that we can know so much about the distant cosmic future without knowing what will happen the next day here on Earth.

There is always too much negative reality we can do nothing about.

Walking humbly with God is not only a religious ideal, it is a way of being realistic about one's own true place in the world.

There is a certain sadness in the aging of world population.

It is disheartening to know we cannot know what will happen to our descendants in future generations.

Only God can save us in the distant human future.

We cannot completely understand even ourselves. How then can we be expected to completely understand anyone else?

Despair is itself a kind of forgetting, forgetting the blessings we have in our life and the good that we ourselves have done.

The world is always changing in ways we could not possibly have anticipated.

It is easier to believe in God when we pray to God.

The more we care for someone, the more we suffer when they suffer.

Without God we are forever lost.

We are all many selves and only one, and none at all.

To think of the End is to live in despair.

The more we know about the Universe the more we know how limited our power to transform it in any significant way.

If one wishes to remain an optimist one should not focus on the long run.

Poetry is the most powerful and beautiful linguistic expression of human feeling.