Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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