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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite

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