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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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We worship God through our questions.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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