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
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To be is to stand for.
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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
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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