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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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