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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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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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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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