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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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