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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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