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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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