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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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