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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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