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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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