For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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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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