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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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 opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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