To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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