The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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