feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe 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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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