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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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