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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am commanded therefore I am.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To be is to stand for.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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