Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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