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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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