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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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