A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To be is to stand for.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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