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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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