The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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?
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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