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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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