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 .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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