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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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