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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To be is to stand for.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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