Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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