It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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