Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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