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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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