To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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