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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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