Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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