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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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