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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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