Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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