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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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