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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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We worship God through our 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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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