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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
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
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite

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