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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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