To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEvery little deed counts.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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 answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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