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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Every little deed counts.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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