Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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