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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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