Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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