One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Our 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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