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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic

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