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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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