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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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