"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.”
“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”
“It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount. I applaud the efforts of the Church to provide for people in need, regardless of where they're from or how they got here. But I think it's a mistake to turn around and expect a nation to act that way. Americans are uniquely tempted to imagine that we are a church, and that we are a universal nation. This is one of the reasons why we're such a dangerous country.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.”

Source : "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.
“If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.”
“Itâ€™s time to find out what the truth really is thatâ€™s out there,”
“With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.”

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