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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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