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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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