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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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