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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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