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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Every little deed counts.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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