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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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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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Art Build Dream Hard Work Life Motivate Success Work
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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