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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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 man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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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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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