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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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