Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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