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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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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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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.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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