A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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