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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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