In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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 sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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