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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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