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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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