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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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