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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
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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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
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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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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