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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 soul can create only when alone.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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