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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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