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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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