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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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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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