Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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