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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 Heschel

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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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