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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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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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