A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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