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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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