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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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