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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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