We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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