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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

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 is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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