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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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