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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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.
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