It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAt all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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