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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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