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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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God Isolation Life Partly Religion Segregated Tragedy
God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
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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Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
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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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
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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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Control Giving Goal Own Realm Share Space Time
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry

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