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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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 sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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