At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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 liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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