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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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