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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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