The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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