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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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