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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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