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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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