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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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We worship God through our questions.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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