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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation
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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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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