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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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 rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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