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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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