(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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 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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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