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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
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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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power

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