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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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 sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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