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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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 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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