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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
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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