When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew 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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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