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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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