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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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 answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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