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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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