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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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