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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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