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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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 riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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