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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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