We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOne of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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