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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Society 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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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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