Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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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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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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