To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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