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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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