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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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