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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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