The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll 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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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