A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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