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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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