There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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