Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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 riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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