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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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