The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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