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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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To be is to stand for.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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