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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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