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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Every little deed counts.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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