When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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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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