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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Every little deed counts.
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