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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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To be is to stand for.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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