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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing
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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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God History Jungle Radiance Ray Sense
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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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Common Few Forgive Guilty Mistake People Responsible
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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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
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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Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand

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