Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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