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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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To be is to stand for.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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