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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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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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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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