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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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