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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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