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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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