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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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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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