Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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