It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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