A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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