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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Life without commitment is not worth 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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