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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We worship God through our questions.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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