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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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