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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We worship God through our questions.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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