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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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 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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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 war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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