In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSociety today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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