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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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 sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Every little deed counts.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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