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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
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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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
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
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Inscrutable Music Ornament Perceive Science Thing World
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

God Light Seeing Way World Worship
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time

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