A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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