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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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