There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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