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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
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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All action is vicarious faith.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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 can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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