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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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 become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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