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
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere 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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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Every little deed counts.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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