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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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