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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.

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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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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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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