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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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To be is to stand for.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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