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I am commanded therefore I am.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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