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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
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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Inscrutable Music Ornament Perceive Science Thing World
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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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
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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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
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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Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul

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