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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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 an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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