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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.

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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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