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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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