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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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