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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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 prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Ability Faith God Issue Play Pray Prayer Unless
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
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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Doe God Insight Matter One Realize World
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
Every little deed counts.
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Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore

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