It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEvery little deed counts.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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