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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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