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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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