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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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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization

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