To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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