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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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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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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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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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