Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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