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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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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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