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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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