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 HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Every little deed counts.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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