Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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