A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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