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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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