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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Every little deed counts.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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