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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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