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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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