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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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