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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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