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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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