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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Empire King Kingdom Leg Marched People Prayer Praying Rule Selma World
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
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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Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting

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