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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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 worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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