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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
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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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Every little deed counts.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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