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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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