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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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To be is to stand for.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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 sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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