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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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