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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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