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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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