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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
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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Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
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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Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception

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