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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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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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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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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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