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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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