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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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