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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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