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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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