When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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