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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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