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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance 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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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To 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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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