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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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