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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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 primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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