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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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