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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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