Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance 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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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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To 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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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