The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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 man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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