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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Called Creation Day Eternal Mystery Result Shared Time
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Beginning Happiness Life Living Lying Understanding Wonder
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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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
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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Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
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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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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