Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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