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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
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.
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