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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 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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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To be is to stand for.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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