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I am commanded therefore I am.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
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
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Existence Moments Presence Of God
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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
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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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious

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