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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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