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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is 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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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