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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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 spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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