When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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