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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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Every little deed counts.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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