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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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To be is to stand for.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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