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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To be is to stand for.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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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.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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