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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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We worship God through our questions.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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