Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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