That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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