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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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