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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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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 is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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