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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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