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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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