Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMorally 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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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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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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