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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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 the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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