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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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