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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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