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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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