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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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