The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELUnderstanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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