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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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