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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To be is to stand for.
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