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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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