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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Every little deed counts.
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Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy

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