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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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