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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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