Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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