Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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