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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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