We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur 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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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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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.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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