Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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At 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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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