When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNever once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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To be is to stand for.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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