The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To be is to stand for.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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