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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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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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Guilty Responsible Society Terrible
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Agree Dawn Mock Scoff Sneer Star Totality
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
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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Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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God Isolation Life Partly Religion Segregated Tragedy
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
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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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test

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