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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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