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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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