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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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