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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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