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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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