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The task of life is to face sacred moments.

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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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