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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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