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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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