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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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