In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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 .
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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