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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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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.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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