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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We worship God through our questions.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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