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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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