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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word

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