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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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