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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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