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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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