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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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