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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 .

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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