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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Every little deed counts.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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