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By the word of God the world was created.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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