Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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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.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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