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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
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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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Existence Moments Presence Of God
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Agree Dawn Mock Scoff Sneer Star Totality

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