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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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