People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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