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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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 concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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