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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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By the word of God the world was created.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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