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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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