Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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 forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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