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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 .

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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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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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.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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