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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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 not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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