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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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