Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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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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