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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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