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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Common Few Forgive Guilty Mistake People Responsible
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
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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Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
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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