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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We worship God through our questions.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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