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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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