Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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