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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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