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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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