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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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