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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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