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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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