Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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