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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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