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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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