There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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