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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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