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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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