Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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