When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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