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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Abyss Anchor Deeper Despair Heart Infinite Man Meaning Reach
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
Every little deed counts.
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Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
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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Air Spring Sunday
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
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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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery

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