When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLoyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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