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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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 not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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