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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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