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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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