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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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