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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder

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