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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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