Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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