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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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