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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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