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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 anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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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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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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