A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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