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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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