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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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