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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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 task of life is to face sacred moments.
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