A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Every little deed counts.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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