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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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