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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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