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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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