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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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