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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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