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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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, 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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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