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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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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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