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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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

Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word

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