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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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