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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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