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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Affecting Deriving Exploiting Living World
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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Doe God Insight Matter One Realize World
Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
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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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
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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Craved Ease God Light Neglect Peril Satisfied Spite Truly
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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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
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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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Guilty Responsible Society Terrible
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Abyss Anchor Deeper Despair Heart Infinite Man Meaning Reach
(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Archive Care Fellowship Fullness Help Other People
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual

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