To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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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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