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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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