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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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