People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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