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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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