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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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