When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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