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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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