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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To be is to stand for.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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