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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
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 is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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