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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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