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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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