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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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