Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To 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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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