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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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 do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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