The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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