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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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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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Every little deed counts.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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