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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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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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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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