Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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