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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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