Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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 anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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