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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Every little deed counts.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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