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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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