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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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 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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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