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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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God Isolation Life Partly Religion Segregated Tragedy
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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old

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