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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To be is to stand for.
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