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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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