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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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