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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 begins where our power ends.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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