Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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