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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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A soul can create only when alone.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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