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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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