Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSociety today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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