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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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