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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal
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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Air Spring Sunday
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
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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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
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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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject

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