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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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