The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAudacious 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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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