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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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