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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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