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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A soul can create only when alone.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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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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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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