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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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