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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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