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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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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
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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