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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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