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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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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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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Every little deed counts.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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