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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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