The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHe who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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We worship God through our questions.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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