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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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When 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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Every little deed counts.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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