When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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