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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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 of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Discipline Fruit Inspirational Life Respect Warrior
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
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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Art Live Pray Prayer Specialized Training
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
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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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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